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This is aimed at the young people of Britain. It begins with an apology and, like all good marketing pitches and therapeutic interventions, ends with a call to action.
First, the apology. You have been let down by your parents’ and grandparents’ generations. They – we, though some of us have tried to stop it – have gradually dismantled much of what made this country great. And in doing so, they have poisoned your future.
They have told you there is no alternative to a country where the public services that my generation took for granted as we grew up are rapidly consigned to the bin, where the NHS and education are starved of funds, where inequality continues to grow, where secure well-paid jobs become harder and harder to find, where pensions (yes, even you will one day need something to live on when you get older) are stolen from you.
Good education for everyone? Can’t afford it. NHS? Can’t afford it. Support for when you can’t work because of sickness or unemployment? Can’t afford it. Quality public transport? Can’t afford it.
That’s what they have been telling us for the past 38 years.
BUT IT IS A LIE.
There IS an alternative, and we used to have it. After the Second World War, the British people became more prosperous with every passing decade. By the late 1970s, society in the UK had never been so equal.
Then Margaret Thatcher came along and changed everything. She was the one who said of her ugly neoliberal policies: “There is no alternative.” Maybe you have even accepted that because you have seen no alternative in your lifetime.
That view, pushed so hard by successive governments (yes, even Labour governments, to their shame) has robbed you of so much.
So I apologise. Not because all of us accepted that new belief, but because collectively we have stolen your futures from you.
But it doesn’t have to be like that.
There is an alternative – and it is in your hands right now. Theresa May handed you that power this week.
She arrogantly believes she will walk to victory in the general election on June 8. She believes this will then give her a mandate to impose every ugly policy her nasty right-wing friends have ever dreamt up. And probably even a few they haven’t yet thought of.
Can she be stopped? Of course she can.
Many will tell you it is a foregone conclusion, that there is no real opposition. They are wrong.
YOU have the power to stop her.
At the last general election in 2015, only 43% of 18-24-year-olds voted. Among those that did, there was a huge swing away from the Tories to Labour. But nearly twice as many over-65s voted.
If that happens again this year, it means that people who have already lived most of their lives (and remember that many of them enjoyed benefits they have stolen from you) get to decide YOUR future.
Is that really what you want?
If not, it is time to fight back – and that couldn’t be easier.
Voting takes no time at all. To be honest, I always find it a bit of an anticlimax…you are in and out of the polling station in minutes. But what you do in there (simply marking a pencil cross on a ballot paper) is the most important thing you can do this year to safeguard your future.
All you need to vote is to be registered. Maybe you already are, but if you aren’t, you can do so HERE. As it says on the website, it takes just five minutes.
You have until May 22 to do it, so that is plenty of time. But don’t put it off – do it now.
Of course, voting is only part of it. Your vote is valuable, but you have the ability to get others to vote too.
Share the message. Share this blog!
It’s YOUR future that is on the line on June 8. You can guarantee that if Theresa May’s Conservatives win, this country will get worse – for a start, the dismantling of the NHS will speed up, and they will make it even easier for unscrupulous bosses to take advantage of you, denying you fair pay and employment protection.
So share the message that there IS an alternative. Tell everyone at school, at college, at work. Don’t forget to tell your parents too! Beating the well-organised and richly-funded Tories isn’t going to be easy. Their friends in the media will tell you lies. They don’t want you to vote – no doubt they are hoping you will all be too bored to bother to vote against them.
But if we all get together, if we build a mass movement, if we convince others of the vital importance of voting, then we can do it.
Remember 2015 when the Tories and the papers laughed at Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign for the Labour Party leadership?
He started that election as a no-hoper, and the Tories want you to believe he is still a no-hoper. But don’t listen to their lies. Listen to his message – he is offering hope.
For your sake, and for the sake of everyone who deserves a better future than the one Theresa May is threatening, let’s wipe any remaining smiles off those Tory faces.
Imagine the look on Theresa May’s face on June 9 if she loses the election.
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Reblogged from Independant Journalist James Moore April 21st 2017
Scope, the charity for disabled people, tweeted an interesting number when the general election was announced. There are, it said, 13 million disabled people in Britain. Some 89 per cent have said they will vote.
The reason that number is worth paying attention to is that if the 89 per cent are true to their word, and if they use their franchise to hold the Government to account for its brutal treatment of disabled people, it might just spell trouble for Theresa May’s dreams of a three-figure majority.
Now, let me make one thing clear at the outset. I’m not about to say who you should vote for. Journalists too often do that. I would simply invite you to consider the Government’s record when it comes to disability.
If I were to take on the role of prosecuting ministers over that, I would struggle to find somewhere to start. So long would be the charge sheet be that it would take a couple of days’ court time just to read it all out. As I’m writing a column, not a novel, I’ll simply draw your attention to just a few of the lowlights.
Take the Personal Independence Payment. The replacement for Disability Living Allowance was sold not as a means of imposing a cut, but as a way to get more money into the hands of the most disabled.
Then it turned out that those who have been left disabled through mental health conditions don’t count. After an appeals tribunal made some pointed comments about the way the rules had been written, they were changed to exclude them at a time when May was telling us how seriously she took the subject.
Talking of those tribunals, just last month I revealed that they are being swamped with more than 50,000 appeals logged against decisions made by the Department for Work and Pensions between October and December last year. Nearly two-thirds of them are being upheld.
Just last week the Press Association revealed that Capita and Atos, the profit-driven companies that carry out assessments used by the DWP to make its decisions, are set to be paid more than £700m for their five-year contracts against an original estimate of £512m. Talk about rewards for failure.
The process of applying is miserable, dehumanising and humiliating. Decisions are frequently perverse. A friend of mine with spina bifida was, for example, turned down. My friend can’t walk at all. The decision was overturned on appeal, but the fact that it even got that far tells you all you need to know about the process.
Then there is the Employment and Support Allowance, paid to people who have conditions that are sufficiently severe to impact their ability to work. The DWP’s plans to cut it as a means of “motivating” claimants to find work were savaged by the all party Work & Pensions Select Committee, which rightly pointed out that the cut was more likely to do the reverse by denying them the means to obtain equipment they might need to support themselves in employment.
The Government’s workplace assessments seem to produce stories of terminal cancer or heart patients told to get down to their Job Centre Plus every few months.
Want more? How about the Government’s promise to halve the disability employment gap by 2020. A manifesto commitment, it was quietly dropped when it had become very obvious that there was scant chance of it being achieved, not least because ministers didn’t much fancy the idea of, you know, actually doing something about it.
Ministers for disability come and go through a revolving door. While in post, they pretend they care about issues such as access, or getting disabled people into work. They put their names to statements claiming Britain is a world leader, even though no less than the United Nations has said it is anything but. Then it’s on to something else. Wait a minute, is that a photographer? Grab the guy in the wheelchair and let’s get a pic of me smiling with him on my way out!
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By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017
IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom, that the Conservative Party are masters of controlling narrative.
Although, much of the groundwork was done during Tony Blair’s days of rhetorical tricks and language manipulation to sow doubt about the veracity of a person’s disability, to seed suspicion and harden attitudes. It is these linguistic and narrative tricks which have been used to make people think of the tens of thousands of deaths under austerity as a sad but necessary evil, or to make people ignore them completely.
They speak as if what they say is reality, and we usually just go along with it until it is.
Theresa May’s General Election announcement included a lot of these narrative devices, accusing anyone who doesn’t agree with her of treating politics as a game, and framing the vote as entirely a vote regarding Brexit and the mandate she needs in order to negotiate from a place of strength.
We cannot, under any circumstances, allow the Tories to reframe the concept of a General Election.
This is not just a vote on Brexit, it is a vote on their entire manifesto and a judgement on their policies on everything from crime to social care to housing to international relations. Voting for the Tories may well be a vote for Brexit, but it is also unquestionably a vote for certain death for some, and permanent damage to the health of tens of thousands of disabled people.
Never, ever forget that.
When I and my fellow disability activists woke up on the morning after the last General Election, we spent an unrelenting few days tag teaming as we tried to keep people in our community alive. We were not always successful. Over and over, hour after hour, we saw iterations of the same message: “I do not think I will survive this government.”
The day of the election, we had all taken a few moments to remember the people who were not there to vote because of the actions of the coalition government. We took a moment to think of the people who would not make it to the next election if we lost.
Amid the elation so many in Scotland felt at the sweep of SNP seats, we disabled people also felt utterly betrayed and hopeless, because the population of the UK had voted to enforce extreme, frequently lethal, damage to our health.
If you do it again, if you do this to us again, we will never forgive you. You can’t pretend you don’t know, you can’t pretend that other things are more important, that it’s not the killing of disabled people you’re voting for really; it’s the other stuff.
The point of civic nationalism is that we have to take responsibility for the choices we make as part of a society. We cannot tick a box and say ‘I didn’t know’, or ‘I care about this bit but not the other bits’.
We have to weigh our decisions, weigh our actions and inactions, and live with the results. We have to accept responsibility, and we have to ensure that others accept their responsibility. We have to not look away.
There were 30,000 extra deaths in England and Wales in 2015 as a result of cuts to health and social care, according to research by Oxford University. There were hundreds of suicides by the very lowest estimates, though we who spend our days working with people who are struggling to survive this government know there are more which aren’t counted; that there are many, many deaths because the stress and fear and pain and malnutrition and isolation exacerbated a person’s condition to the point of lethality.
More than 50,000 people have lost their motability vehicles and become chronically isolated. Every one of those is someone who was considered disabled enough to require high mobility care until the Tories changed the narrative of who deserved assistance, against all the evidence from expert organisations who responded to the consultation.
There has been “almost universal” deterioration in and frequently permanent damage to the mental health of people going through the Work Capability Assessment.
We have to be completely clear to the people we speak to. We can no longer afford to mince words or be neutral because, again, the narrative is that neutrality is rationality. In situations like this, anger and bluntness are the only rational responses.
We need to tell them, with no platitudes or appeasement: “You will be voting to allow the government to kill us. We will not forget, and we will not forgive.”
Nothing else is more important than this.
Do not let them change the conversation.
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Tory MP Peter Lilley’s company IDOX was given contracts across Scotland by SNP and Labour councils to quietly privatise the entire electoral process and control of postal votes and election counts across Scotland.
The contracts were awarded to ensure private control of all Scottish elections for the three year period covering the EU election, the general election, the EU referendum and the Scottish Elections which allow IDOX to control, open, count and put forward "postal" ballot papers to be put into ballot boxes right up to the 10pm deadline.
By May 2013 IDOX boasted they already had control of elections and voter registration and votes for 13 million people across the UK in the privatisation of all elections that most voters in the UK are completely unaware of.
Does this mean it is possible for postal votes to be binned (if private operators don't agree with the vote provided) and replaced using signatures they store electronically and can ballot papers be made up in peoples' names right up to the 10pm deadline using the information held in the IDOX database -based on lists that tell you who did not vote in previous elections and election voting history held by IDOX for what appears to be moving fast for all of the UK?
Is this why leader of the Scottish Tory party, Ruth Davidson, declared she knew the postal vote results before the election count started?
In May 2015 an article "IDOX Elections Delivering Modern Democracy" said "Despite concerns over abuse of the system and fraud, the Electoral Commission maintains that there is no evidence of widespread and systematic abuse, and that it would not be ‘proportionate’ to scrap postal voting"
Despite a police investigation into allegations of postal vote tampering in the Scottish referendum, the police did not hand over their report to prosecutors until September 2015, ensuring the General Election was allowed to go ahead under IDOX control
On 16th September 2015 the Scotsman reported the police had handed over their report related to their inquiry into how Ruth Davidson and others knew the postal vote result before the votes had been counted revealing, "A Crown Office spokesperson said: “The Crown Office has received information regarding the investigation carried out by Police Scotland and will consider if further action is necessary."
Just two weeks later, on the 30th September 2015, the Daily Record reported "No-one will face prosecution over allegations that electoral secrecy laws were broken by pro-union campaigners counting postal votes ahead of last year’s independence referendum . The Crown Office has confirmed that the issue is “now closed”
At the general election half an hour before polls closed I was told that 20% of the votes were “postal votes” for my polling station – my initial reaction there is no way 20% of people voted by post – so how come the number is so high”
The article "IDOX Elections Delivering Modern Democracy" gives an explanation of how the new "modern privatisation of the electoral process" worked at the general election.
"Countdown to the election
For those of us new to the Elections team, work started the week beginning 27 April, almost two weeks before polling day. From the Monday, we started to arrive on-site to set up the system and meet the temporary staff employed to open and scan the PVS and ballot papers. The scale of this operation varied from one local authority to another: some of the smaller ones had 8,000 voting packs to get through before election day whereas sites like Glasgow (with an anticipated 66,000 packs) would sometimes process more than that in one day.Polling day.
On the actual day of the election, work in Glasgow began at 6pm. This was due to the fact that postal votes can legally be handed into polling stations until 10pm – we had a long night of verifying votes ahead of us. In Glasgow, we had moved from the council building to the Emirates Arena for the count, where our work continued as media outlets from across the country prepared to report the events of the night ahead.
Of course, we didn’t let the pressure get to us and the last of the postal votes were safely delivered to the council to go forward to the overall count around midnight. While the days were sometimes long, I thoroughly enjoyed my ‘sabbatical’ from the Idox Information Service team and the chance to be involved in the delivery of something as important as democracy: roll on the Scottish Parliament elections in 2016! By Stacey Dingwall, Idox"
In a news article on their website using the graphic “Every vote counts” Idox
boast they “provide "electoral services" for Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council, Birmingham City Council, Fife Council, Moray Council, Perth & Kinross Council, Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, South Lanarkshire Council, Glasgow City Council, The City of Edinburgh Council and and provided internet voting site to elect staff members for the Council of Europe and a range of technical services to support the delivery Norwegian local elections on 15th September 2015.
"The range of managed election services delivered by Idox includes: managed print services, postal vote managed services, e-counting and electronic voting as well as the project management and supervision required to deliver success in conjunction with the council’s own workforce"
As a leading supplier of electoral services, Idox understands and actively engages with the issues and challenges that electoral administrators face and specialises in designing and delivering a wide range of innovative and cost effective solutions.
The “Idox Elections” website shows the extent of Peter Lilley’s control (using contracts and taxpayers money to put him in charge and profit from of all elections rather than the democratic bodies meant to control all elections to ensure no private company or political party anywhere can corrupt the vote.
Idox claim “Idox Elections specialises in designing and delivering a range of innovative, cost effective solutions to meet the changing needs of the UK and international electoral services market. Our range of products and
associated services include traditional electoral registration and election management solutions as well as advanced Individual Electoral Registration, e-counting and electronic voting by internet and telephone.
Idox Elections aims to provide the choice, convenience and simplicity necessary to improve participation and confidence in voting whilst achieving modernisation and advancement of the democratic process”
The advancement being there is no democracy as IDOX with a Tory MP on the board control the entire electoral process.
And now they control the electoral process – is that why hundreds of thousands of people across Britain have been kicked off the voters roll across Britain by the Tory party as they now control the entire electoral register via IDOX who can use “personal identifier matching” to decide exactly who gets kicked off the register (thanks to Labour and SNP they decide who gets kicked off Scotland’s too).
Three SNP controlled councils, Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross created a “Tayside procurement consortium” and used that to club together to pay Tory MP Peter Lilley's IDOX to take over the electoral process for 3 years – the period that covered the Scottish referendum, the EU elections, General Election, the Scottish elections and now the ~EU referendum with Idox even boasting on their website their “experts” include former Electoral Registration Officers”
Their Idox Elections website states "Idox's Public Sector Software division serves over 90% of local authorities through supplying leading applications for core functions relating to land, property and people."
They boast “Idox is also the largest provider of electoral management systems in the UK, Idox Elections covers a voting population of 13 million. Idox Elections' team of experts include former Electoral Registration Officers who advise the UK's central government on initiatives such as the Individual Electoral Registration. Idox Elections' wide-range of electoral management solutions include: electoral administration managed print services Postal Vote Managed Services e-Counting and e-Voting hosted solutions”
Their Idox Elections glossy brochure gives a graphic which details the new private control IDOX electoral process across Scotland England and Wales.
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while we discuss parking in neath people around the country are dying being abused by our society government help to point the finger hmmm christian hay we not plrase read and then say we treat those on benifits with distain these below are not my words but a poster on the net
I caught 15 mins of #benefitsmerseyside .. Really ? Really ? these are the day to day people of Merseyside ?
You complete bastards ....Sorry to swear ...
my experience of speaking to Merseyside people...
A 52 yrs old man been made redundant , his wife died & he is in a 3 bedroom house of 42 yrs ...Could not pay bedroom tax ..The council had him out within 3 months ..Even though he was deemed a golden key tenant (a long standing tenant ) Many Threatening letters of bedroom tax ..the man had never owed any debts in his life...Council Give him a flat 1 bed miles away ..Isolated now , This man desperate for a new job Frustratingly, he is now Deemed too old by employers
Too proud to ask his family for help ...
A lady with learning difficulties ...lived with her father .Her Mum died when she was a child ..3 bedroomed house ..The council threatened her with letters, so she hid in a man's house (who she hardly knew) he kindly let her stay there..They work together ..She works ..She is a volunteer in a second hand shop.She explained to me she does not want to be on benefits but cannot get a full time or part time job anywhere else ....To keep warm she worked even longer hours as she could not afford to heat her home..
No support worker , no social worker ..just doing as best as she can to survive ....She has never returned to her former home & left everything inside .She is still fearful the council will give her a bill for rent owed .. So she avoids walking anywhere near her former home ...
A lady who has mental health issues ..attempted suicide 3 times .. 2 bedroomed flat ..Got into arrears with Bedroom tax... She was on just job seekers allowance ..We went to Court to explain to the judge ..Please give me time to get this lady on the correct benefits ? He was kind and put an order on which stopped any eviction indefinitely .. Her benefits were applied for and gained successfully ..She has not attempted suicide since ..
A pensioner was in a 3 bedroomed home .His grandson lived with him as relations with his family had broken down ..His Mum demanded he get a job ..He attempted this daily he explored every avenue ...He ran off to his grandad as the frustration was just too hard to bear .. From what I hear he remains with his grandad looking after him as he has become to frail to look after himself ..He visits his mum & the relationship has improved ..
An elderly man evicted from his home of over 40 yrs,,was given a 1 bed flat miles away from his community ..He used to wait until dark & go to his his former home ..& sleep in the outside bin cupboard ..
Angry Upset & Speechless ..utterly bloody speechless
The Real people ...life on Benefits
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At PMQs today, Jeremy Corbyn challenged Theresa May on her refusal to participate in any TV debates:
We welcome the General Election, but this is a Prime Minister who promised there wouldn’t be one. A Prime Minister who cannot be trusted. She says it’s about leadership – yet is refusing to defend her record in television debates and it’s not hard to see why. She says we have a stronger economy and yet she can’t explain why people’s wages are lower today than they were ten years ago, why more households are in debt, 6 million people earning less than the living wage. Child poverty is up, pensioner poverty is up. So – why are so many people getting poorer?
May’s response was as weak as it was predictable:
I would point out to the Right Honourable Gentleman that I have been answering his questions and debating these matters every Wednesday that Parliament has been sitting since I became Prime Minister.
But she hasn’t. There’s a reason it’s called ‘Prime Minister’s Questions’ and not ‘Prime Minister’s Answers’ – and Theresa May exemplifies it even more than her predecessor and did so again today. Corbyn made mincemeat of May on the crucial issues of poverty, the NHS, education, broken promises, the Tories borrowing more since 2010 than every Labour government in history and more.
In spite of the media’s attempts to cast it differently, and even in the artificial and rules-bound environment that allows a Prime Minister to be evasive without being called to account properly, Corbyn routinely trounces May every week, forcing her to resort to smears and jibes almost instantly – and today he was statesmanlike, incisive, confident and coherent.
Here’s a short example, in case you missed it:
It was a stark contrast with her bluster and diversion – but of course, if you have a helpful media, that might not filter from PMQs into the awareness of a public that doesn’t watch PMQs and only reads or hears about it.
And that’s why Theresa May is terrified of a live television debate. She knows it will be watched by millions who wouldn’t normally watch PMQs – and without the filter of the media to airbrush out her haplessness and obvious inability to give a straight answer to any important question.
If May faced Corbyn in a live television debate he would take her apart – and millions would see it.
Angus Robertson for the SNP and others also challenged May – and got the same lame response.
The BBC and other channels have a duty to hold the debates anyway – and to ’empty chair’ Mrs May, so the public is aware of her cowardice while the real politicians debate the real issues. If they fail to do so, they will have put beyond doubt the fact of their enslavement to Establishment interests.
Just as May has put beyond doubt her unfitness for the role of Prime Minister and her complete lack of substance and backbone.
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Oh look, here’s an article attacking the ongoing NHS sell-off that Kristian Niemietz in the Independent is so keen for us to support.
Be under no illusions:
The ongoing intrusion of private, profit-making firms into the National Health Service in England is already having a disastrous effect on public health.
Many treatments are now a postcode lottery, with provision dependent on how close you live to the private firm providing them.
And a fully-privatised system will be much worse, with no provision at all of “unprofitable” treatments, even if they could save lives, and all other provision dependent on whether you can afford it.
(Hint: If you have to work for a living, you won’t be able to afford it.)
Don’t let the propagandists fool you: The NHS really is the best thing that ever happened to the United Kingdom – and the current Conservative Government really is the worst thing that ever happened to it.
Which means, really, that the current Conservative Government really is the worst thing that ever happened to you.
A ‘business-case’ for the NHS has now been set, and its the biggest NHS Sell-Off event Ever!
If anyone is in any doubt as to the sheer scale of the privatisation of our NHS, look no further than the Health+Care Conference announced for June.
The conference 28-29 June 2017 | ExCeL London, brings together all STP leads, health trust and CCG chief executives and other delegates from the private sector claims the event is” Europe’s largest integrated health and social care event, building relationships between commissioners, providers and suppliers”.
Their brochure states “IT’S THE ONLY PLATFORM FOR BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN COMMISSIONERS, PROVIDERS AND SUPPLIERS. IT’S ALSO THE LARGEST GATHERING OF STP LEADERS EVER ASSEMBLED. AND LET’S FACE IT, AS THEY’LL BE LOOKING FOR YOU AT HEALTH+CARE, CAN YOU AFFORD TO NOT SEE 5,500 CUSTOMERS YOU HAVEN’T MET YET.
The objective of the expo conference is to accelerate ‘Transformation’ of the NHS by introducing delegates to hundreds of private healthcare sector companies along with other STP leads.
To anyone wishing to retain a universal healthcare system, the Health+Care conference is a shameful collection of people openly betraying the principles of the NHS. Such events would have been taboo 20 years ago, but now the SALE OF OUR NHS is openly broadcast and in public. There’s even a ‘transformation’ awards event for those who so far have managed to cut NHS services and transform them in line with private healthcare sector values.
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hmm makes you wonder
CORRUPTION IN ‘THE HOUSE’
STEPHEN JONES·SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2016
OK, so I'm a little curious here Maureen, you see, from 2007 through to 2009, multi millionaire David Cameron claimed Disability Living Allowance (inc. Carer’s Component) whilst still (we’ve only discovered this week) a major shareholder & beneficiary of Blairmore Holdings, (the ONLY offshore tax vehicle he’s currently prepared to own up to...after leaks FORCED him to do so) and officially, he’s “done nothing wrong” because he finally admits he sold (just) these shares and is no longer involved in that company anymore.
Now I'm aware that Blairmore Holdings is still based outside the UK Tax System and is currently worth £25million, and I'm also aware that (at least) a second company exists (Blairmore Asset Management) which is based offshore also (in Geneva). But there's been no leaks about his role in that company (or any of his other hidden secret offshore tax avoidance vehicles out there) so he’s currently not legally obliged to divulge any further information whatsoever. My query is this: Mr Cameron has benefited from Disability Living Allowance, which is funded by the UK Taxpayer (along with other separate benefits I’ll go into in another article), but Mr Cameron is actually guilty of ‘deliberately and willfully removing his financial activities from this very UK System’ that he benefits from. He has deliberately not declared such interest until forced to do so, and even then, only after lying outrageously (whilst conveniently covered by “Parliamentary Privilege”) that he had no controlling or beneficiary's part in his father’s companies whatsoever. Which we now know to be a complete misdirection of truth. It is deceiving and deliberately engineered in order to misdirect investigators from finding out the actual facts.
So if the rank and file, ordinary, everyday, law abiding citizen were to do this, there would be serious (VERY serious) repercussions. The word “FRAUD” is a noun. It’s dictionarial definition is (QUOTE) “the wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain” (UNQUOTE) If you or I, or any other working class grunt tried to do this, we would find ourselves subject to the Serious Investigations Department of the DWP, and with the amount of money being taken out of the UK Tax System, then the HMRC Fraud Investigators would be invited and heavily involved also, as would the Metropolitan Police’s Serious Fraud Squad (or National Crime Agency). Problem is, there are dire complications here because the lawyer who looked after Blairmore Holding (etc) is a guy named Edward Troup who is NOW the Head of HMRC itself. Which exacerbates this whole seedy conflict of interests heavily. Not only this, but this is the PRIME MINISTER we’re talking about here, the man who MAKES the decisions and APPOINTS the investigators. The man who SHOULD know better (and who should act a damn sight better too). Which really means we need outside (independent) Investigative Agencies.
Mr Cameron is also the Minister who initiated the abolition of the very DLA Benefit he claimed for himself, which is a curious thing in itself because he only abolished it AFTER he’d finished claiming for it. All in all, this is a very seedy and murky affair. Cameron is complicit in the removal from our UK Tax System of many millions of pounds sterling. He then CLAIMS benefits from this very Tax System (which he is guilty of cheating), but being the Minister in Charge of these things, he abolishes the benefit itself once he’s done with it, appoints his own lawyer who looked after his offshore trusts (personally) to a position of power where he can cover up the hidden assets. He LIES about his involvement, commits willful and deliberate FRAUD in order to cover his tracks and refuses to acknowledge or own up to all his other offshore hidden assets around the globe.
This is perhaps one of the most Machiavellian and sinister cases ever exposed about a serving Prime Minister in this country.
And yet, the powers that be simply sit idly by, watching in complete ignorance as this whole case is dragged into the public domain, peeled back layer by layer until the glaring truth is hitting them smack in the face. Last week the very people we elect to DO something about these things, decided to sit on their hands and do nothing whatsoever. What good is having elected representatives when they vote in favour of covering up this whole shoddy, tacky affair and ignoring the fraud that goes on in The House. They don't like us saying it, but this smacks of corruption (there, I've said it...I’ll get hauled in for daring to even mention the word itself it’s that raw) But SO BE IT. Let's get this into a court of law any way we can.
If MP’s vote AGAINST an inquiry into their own tax evasion policies, let’s find an investigative journalist like John Sweeney who CAN bring pressure to bear on this insidious, mercenary, bunch of corrupt so called “public servants” who, by voting against an inquiry, are proving the fact that they are prepared to close ranks against the very electorate they are sworn to protect.
The system is flawed. The system is corrupt. The system needs CHANGING and these public servants need to be investigated very seriously to see exactly HOW MANY of them are cheating or removing earnings from the very UK Tax System that pays their bloody wages. I would actually demand a vote of no confidence in this gang of mercenary selfish crooks (YES, I called them CROOKS) and I’ll be sending this article in to a certain politician I know who isn’t “in it for the money” (one or two actually do exist) because this whole shoddy system needs to be overhauled and the corrupt amongst them JAILED (with heavier sentences than the norm because they SHOULD KNOW BETTER than to cheat the very public who employ them).
Alas, money runs this system these days, so to find an investigative agency that isn’t under the filthy financial cudgel of corruption is easier said than done.
Any idea where we can lodge this case?
Stephen Jones ...
Posted by jeffrey davies on 16 April 2017
